Where Light Rest 

Orchid Field in Japanese Ukiyo-e style

The day begins in quiet clarity,

and color gathers softly in the field.

The orchids keep their brightness close,

the way a thought holds warmth

before it shapes itself to words.

Nothing here tries to become

anything but itself.

The field opens in patient pace

delicate, steady and still,

the light reveals the hue and line

of its forms and colors in silence.

Light drifts across the distance,
not searching, not selecting,
only settling where the field
has opened room to receive it,
and rests, content, on the petals.

And in this quiet stillness,
the heart relearns how to be,
the art of simply being,
how to rest without reaching,
how to open without asking.